The Department of Justice and Microsoft reached a tentative settlement in the antitrust case in advance of a Friday court deadline, according to published reports. State attorneys general were reviewing the agreement Wednesday night.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 31, 2001
Citrix Systems Inc. is claiming it has sold 35 million licenses of its ICA client software for enabling server-based computing.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 31, 2001
Microsoft's new Windows XP desktop operating system appears to be getting quite a boost from an industry starved for new momentum.
- By Joe McKendrick
- October 30, 2001
The results of a recent survey by ComponentSource, an established marketplace for reusable software components, show Microsoft is beating Sun Microsystems in the early stages of a battle for mindshare in the Web services community.
- By Matt Migliore
- October 30, 2001
Microsoft timed the release of a “critical update” package to coincide with the launch of its new Windows XP operating system launch on Thursday.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 29, 2001
Oracle began shipping Oracle9i for Windows this month, about three-and-a-half months after the database became available for Unix and Linux platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 25, 2001
ENT reviewer Stephen Swoyer evaluates Windows XP on a wide range of client hardware to give you solid intelligence about how Microsoft's new OS will perform on the existing hardware in your enterprise network. Swoyer also offers configuration tips to improve performance on older hardware. Swoyer concludes that XP is a solid upgrade over Windows 9x or NT 4.0 with some good networking enhancement for mobile Windows 2000 users.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 25, 2001
Microsoft Corp. provided specifics of its plans to extend .NET to the Pocket PC and other smart mobile devices, including PDAs and cell phones, during the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week.
- By Matt Migliore
- October 25, 2001
Attendees of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference walked away with release candidate versions of Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework -- proving that Microsoft is close to delivering key .NET building blocks by year-end as promised.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 25, 2001
NEW YORK -- Microsoft Corp. formally launched its Windows XP client operating system for consumers and businesses on Thursday with worldwide ballyhoo.
- By Joe McKendrick
- October 25, 2001
Sun Microsystems offered its first structured public explanation of its Sun Open Net Environment initiative and Web services vision on Tuesday at its inaugural Services on Demand Summit.
- By Matt Migliore
- October 24, 2001
Compaq Computer Corp. launched two new storage systems this week at Storage Networking World in Orlando Fla. The devices are the first to use Compaq’s long-awaited Versastor technology.
SSH Communications Security has introduced an enterprise VPN that mixes hardware and software to help ISPs or ASPs manage thousands of VPN connections.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- October 24, 2001
Dell Computer Corp. reached an agreement with storage giant EMC Corp. to resell EMC's Clariion midrange storage systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2001
Unisys posted the top result Monday on the SAP benchmark for SAP's own e-business application using the Unisys ES7000 server with 32 Intel processors and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2001
In a sign of the growing demand for scalable Windows-based storage solutions, Computer Associates Tuesday demonstrated the scalability of its new enterprise backup software on a Windows platform.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2001
Microsoft issues a stern self-admonishment over the weekend for a botched security patch that contained errors leading to Windows 2000 system instabilities. The tone reflects Microsoft's awareness of the tense and critical atmosphere among customers and analysts about the software company's security practices.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2001
Need any proof that security issues are getting out of hand? Check the CERT Coordination Center's tally of incident reports through the third quarter of 2001.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2001
Redmond to start giving IT more guidance as to the importance and applicability of individual security bulletins.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 22, 2001
Market research firm Cahners In-Stat finds that the September 11 attacks provided a definite boost to the security industry and projects booming firewall revenues through 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2001